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Tlui {ininuils completed the experiment with only slight 

 disturbances. Composite samples of each cow's milk and of 

 the mixed milk of each herd were made for live days of each 

 week, and the milk was tested for total solids, fat, nitrogen 

 and ash. The analyses of the mixed milk only are i)resented 

 at this time : — 



Milk xinalyses. 

 First period : bolh herds normal oil ration. 



Third 2>criod : both herds normal oil ration. 



In studying the average result.^, one notes that in the first 

 period both herds produced milk of approximately the same 

 quality. The second period of twelve weeks showed an in- 

 crease in the fat of Herd I. from 4.4.S to 5, or .52 per cent., 



